Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.